Jun 3, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Longborough, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, England Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed There were two things in Amy Lane’s new production of Part Three of The Ring that delivered much with almost casual simplicity. The staging is part of...
May 25, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Tuesday, May 24, 2022 St George’s Church, Hanover Square, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Handel has long been acknowledged as one of music’s great survivors, as he adapted with chameleonic ease the changing fortunes and fashions of the different contexts in...
May 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Unexpected
Due to a temporary hiatus in posting reviews on Classical Source, I, Colin, as the site’s editor, am adding some of the so-far-unpublished edited copy here and in serendipitous fashion. *** Curtis Rogers London Handel Festival & St Martin in the Fields...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, May 13, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s operatic adaptation of Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival, has arrived at the Met, and their daring...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Monday, May 16, 2022 Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Imeneo was Handel’s penultimate opera, reaching the stage in 1740, just one year before he composed Messiah. But even as his fortunes as a composer of opera...
![Berliner Philharmoniker: Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles].](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/queen5.png)
Apr 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Sunday, April 24, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin With The Queen of Spades/Pique Dame (Opus 68, to a libretto after Pushkin’s novella), the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko completed their Tchaikovsky triptych of operas this...
